NewsFactor – Google will integrate the Adobe Flash Player into its Chrome browser and work with Adobe Systems, Mozilla and others to define the next generation of the browser plug-in application programming interface (API). The announcement Tuesday by the search giant could have an impact on competition among mobile devices and on the next generation of multimedia on the web.

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New API Standard Could Improve Browser Plug-Ins
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Leaf debuts Aptus-II 10R digital camera back with rotating sensor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AFP – Google-owned YouTube on Wednesday rolled out a major redesign aimed at clearing out visual noise and capturing the attention of viewers at the superstar video-sharing website.

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While making it crystal clear that this is only intended for developers that want a mega-early look at the platform, Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo team has just announced that the very first cut of the melded Moblin / Maemo mobile platform is available for download. Specifically, users of N900s, Atom notebooks, and Atom-powered Moorestown MIDs have all been gifted with their own distributions, which will boot off a USB stick or directly on the devices themselves. Sadly, the MeeGo user experience — the good stuff, that is — isn’t included here, so if you flash your N900 you’re going to end up booting into a terminal console, but hey, some of you sickos are into that sort of thing, aren’t you? Next up for the team is a release billed 1.0 that will come in May, and we’re told details on the road to that version will be unveiled over the coming days. Take care of yourselves if you go for it, alright?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

First cut of MeeGo available today for N900 and Atom devices originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple said it expects the iPad to be a “second gold rush” of app development as consumers rush to add content to their new devices, and it looks like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers agrees: the venture capital firm just announced that it’s expanding the iFund to $200 million to invest in iPad app development. If you’ll recall, the iFund was originally announced alongside the iPhone OS 2.0 SDK, and provided $100 million in total investments to 14 iPhone app developers like Shazam, ngmoco, and Shopkick — companies responsible for 18 apps that have hit the App Store Top 10. Keep in mind that this money was promised before the iPhone App Store was even launched — so given how that bet paid off, it’s not surprising that KPCB’s decided to double down on the iPad, which looks like it’ll have even higher app prices. Along with the announcement, some iFund devs announced the following iPad apps:

• Pinger: Doodle Buddy and Starsmash
• Booyah: MyTown, a popular location-based game
• Shazam: Shazam, optimized for the new screen size,
• ngmoco: Flick Fishing, a new MMO called CastleCraft, Charadium (described as “massively multiplayer Pictionary”), God Finger, We Rule, WarpGate, and one more we missed — anyone catch it?
• GOGII: TextPlus

Nothing too surprising here, but it looks like the heavy hitters are going to be on the iPad bandwagon from day one — and pushing hard for this thing to be a success.

Kleiner Perkins iFund doubles to $200m, investing in iPad apps from Shazam, ngmoco and more originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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